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  • 1.  Impacts to overall Emergency Management of US Federal government shutdown

    Posted 09-30-2023 12:44
    Edited by Michael Prasad 09-30-2023 14:40

    @Thad Huguley  & team - can you provide us with the 'chapter and verse' impacts of a US Federal Government shutdown, on full cycle Emergency Management?

    • impacts to existing Declared Disasters/Emergencies
    • Impacts to IMTs and imbedded FEMA folks at SLTTs
    • Adjunct departmental programs, such as DSAP, CDBG-DR, and SBA loans
    • Impacts to standing public health and other ESF support to SLTTs

    And so forth...

    Thanks,

    Mike.



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    Michael Prasad
    Executive Director
    The Center for Emergency Management Intelligence Research
    emint@cemir.org
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  • 2.  RE: Impacts to overall Emergency Management of US Federal government shutdown

    Posted 10-02-2023 08:30

    Good question, Michael.  FEMA Counsel was supposedly working on shutdown guidance last week, but fortunately, they never had to release it.  Fingers crossed that we are not back in this same situation later in the year.



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    Thad Huguley
    Government Affairs Director
    IAEM
    Falls Church VA
    (615) 870-9316
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  • 3.  RE: Impacts to overall Emergency Management of US Federal government shutdown

    Posted 10-02-2023 11:50

    I remember the last time this happened - there were some obvious things (meetings cancelled/postponed) which had immediate SLTT impacts, but also some not so 'announced' ones - like EMI closing (and the online IS course system suspended). Could this have impacted the National Alert test (had it not been extended)? How about in-person classes at EMI? Or grant submission processes for SLTTs and others? All of this should be 'known' by FEMA Counsel as to the 'rules of the road' as to what and who is still 'working' during a shutdown, and what gets cancelled or postponed, right? I also worry about the other agencies and departments that support FEMA on DRs - will HUD, SBA, HHS, FCC, Commerce, USDOT, etc. still support JFOs and RRCCs with staffing and other resources to the same level? If they don't know these answers now, well they have until November 17th to figure it out, and hopefully give us the 'heads up' beforehand.  Thanks, Mike.



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    Michael Prasad
    Executive Director
    The Center for Emergency Management Intelligence Research
    emint@cemir.org
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    Original Message


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